Financial performance measures assist managers in making strategic plans and in
tracking progress in relationship to a firm's
goals. Kansas Farm Management Association
data were used to compute benchmark
financial ...

A total of 956 sows was used to determine the influence of a single injection of beta carotene, vitamin A, or the combination of beta carotene and vitamin A at weaning on subsequent reproductive performance. At weaning, ...

A 28 d growth trial was conducted to determine the effects of adding organic acids to a Phase I starter diet on pig performance. At weaning (13 ± 2 d of age and 8.86 lb), 300 pigs were blocked by weight and allotted to ...

One hundred-fourteen high-lean growth
gilts (initial wt of 100 lb) were used to determine the level of digestible methionine required to optimize growth performance and
carcass characteristics from 100 to 240 lb.
The ...

A total of 180 barrows (initially 7.4 or 11.9 lb and 9 or 19 d of age) was used in a growth assay to determine the influence of two weaning ages and three diet complexity
sequences on growth performance and carcass
cha ...

Four hundred thirty-five pigs (initially 7.7 lb and 10.1 ± 4 d of age) were used to determine the influence of increasing dietary methionine on growth performance of the early-weaned pig (10 d of age). Pigs were
blocked ...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the nutritional value of oats and oat products in diets of weanling pigs. In Exp. 1, 115 weanling pigs (avg initial body wt of 12.4 lb and avg age of 19 d) were used in a 38-d ...

Twenty-seven pork carcass sides were assigned randomly to either blast chilling for 1 h at -13°F followed by 23 h chill at 34°F or a standard chill at 34°F for 24 h. At 24 h postmortem, the longissimus muscle from the ...

Six hundred twenty six pigs (initially 9 lb and 13.2 d of age) were used in a 28-d growth trial to determine the effect of spraydried porcine (SDPP), spray-dried bovine (SDBP), and low-ash porcine plasma (LAPP) on growth ...

Three experiments, using 344 pigs, were
conducted to evaluate the influence of β-glucan (MacroGard™-S) on neutrophil and macrophage function, resistance to Streptococcus suis challenge, and growth performance in weanling ...

This experiment tested the hypothesis that an injection of vitamin A on the day of first
detected estrus would improve reproductive
performance of gilts. Gilts (432) were assigned to either receive vitamin A (1,000,000 ...

Approximately 15 swine operations are enrolled in the 1993 to 1994 Kansas Swine
Enterprise Record Program provided by Kansas
State University. This program evaluates
biological and economic performance and is
part of ...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the effects of mix time on diet uniformity and growth performance of nursery and finishing pigs. For Exp. 1, 120 weanling pigs (average initial body wt of 12.1 lb) were used in ...

A total of 100 weanling pigs with an
average initial body wt of 11.8 lb and average age of 17 d was used in a 38-d growth
assay to determine the effect of castration on growth performance of nursery pigs. All
pigs were ...

One-hundred twenty nine primiparous sows were used to determine the effects of alternative processing procedures and feeding
systems on the nutritional value of sorghum
grain-based diets for lactating sows. Treatments ...

Eight crossbred barrows (initial body wt of 90 lb and 180 lb for four growing and four finishing pigs, respectively) were fitted
with T-cannulas at the distal ileum and used in 36-d metabolism experiments (4 x 4 Latin
squares) ...

Ninety nursery pigs were used in two metabolism experiments to determine the effects of roasting and extruding on the
nutritional value of Williams 82 soybeans
with (+K) and without (-K) gene expression
for the Kunitz ...

A total of 150 weanling pigs (14.2 lb avg
body wt) was used in a 28-d growth assay to
determine the effects of using sodium sulfite
as an extrusion enhancer for soy products.
Treatments were: 1) soybean meal (SBM), ...

Ten hog marketing groups located in Kansas and Iowa were surveyed during 1993 to determine the success, operation, and
management of hog marketing groups. Results offer insights into the structure and organization of ...

Conventional response criteria for amino
acid research include mean live weight gain and tissue accretion rates over a given weight interval. However, these methods fail to characterize the changing response of tissue ...